President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.

The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.

Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.

A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.

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"President-elect Donald Trump has no plans to scrap his controversial and sometimes inflammatory use of Twitter and other social media tools after he becomes president in just 20 days, his top spokesman said Sunday.

"When he tweets, he gets results," Sean Spicer, Trump's incoming press secretary, told ABC News. "So whether it's Twitter, holding a news conference, picking up the phone, having a meeting, he is going to make sure that he continues to fight for the American people every single day."

In the days after his election victory, Trump told CBS' "60 Minutes" that he would be "very restrained" on Twitter in the White House, though he cautioned that he would also use the service to combat negative press. He has continued to use the social media platform to blast opponents, propose policies and make statements that critics and fact-checkers have labeled as alternately outlandish and false."

Incoming White House press secretary: Trump's unorthodox tweeting will continue throughout his presidency

Dec. 27, 2017 Pamela Engel

"President-elect Donald Trump's incoming press secretary said on Monday that Trump's use of social media would be a "really exciting part of the job" once Trump takes office.

During his campaign, Trump was known for his unusual use of social media — Twitter in particular — to spread his message and communicate with supporters.

"His use of social media in particular ... is going to be something that's never been seen before," Sean Spicer, Trump's pick for White House press secretary, told the Rhode Island news channel WPRI. "He has this direct pipeline to the American people, where he can talk back and forth."

Spicer suggested that Trump would continue his unorthodox use of these platforms when he's president.

"I think that allows him to add an element of a conversation that's never occurred," Spicer said. "He can put his thoughts out and hear what they're thinking in a way that no one's ever been able to do before."

He continued: "He does communicate in a much bigger way than there's ever been before, and I think that's gonna be just a really exciting part of the job."

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VIDEO; BOOM! Russia and the US joining forces to rid the world of evil. First target in the crosshairs…. George Soros!

Thomas Madison Jan. 9, 2017

"The Barack Hussein administration is on its hands and knees begging the very people they have been lying about for weeks, the Russian government, to please, please, please not release “historical files” they possess regarding George Soros to Donald Trump. Mortal enemy to the American Democrat Party, but friend to America, the Russian government has issued a clear “NO!” in response to Hussein’s plea.

George Soros has been responsible for untold misery around the globe, including the American people. It’s what gets him off. Like all liberals, nothing matters more than his own personal gratification.

Russian “Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday refused outgoing US Ambassador John Tefft’s urgent demand that the incoming Trump administration be denied Federal Security Service (FSB) historical files relating to American-Hungarian billionaire George Soros, the 19th richest person in the world worth $24.9 billion, due to Obama regime fears that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to charge this former World War II Nazi collaborator as a being a threat to the national security of the United States would cause needless chaos to erupt within the American political environment.

This past Friday, January 6, Minister Lavrov received a formal diplomatic notice from the Trump transition team requesting that any and all files and investigative documents in the current possession of the FSB relating to the World War II actions and activities of George Soros be provided to them.”

Anonymous Trump Prepares To Declare George Soros National Security Threat

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Did The CIA Just Make A Veiled Threat To Donald Trump? Some Believe So... Posted By: Watchman Date: Tuesday, 10-Jan-2017 01:59:50

Trump’s About to Wipe the Floor with the CIA – Agency Makes Veiled Threat Against President-elect The effort to smear Trump and Russia in the media has backfired and propelled the president-elect to propose a major housecleaning in the US intel community – but they aren’t taking it lying down.

I first wrote in mid-December (here and here) about the campaign orchestrated by elements of the US intelligence community to accuse Russia of “hacking the US election” and its likely consequence – that incoming President Trump would deal harshly with the campaign’s promoters.

The propaganda campaign had two objectives. First, to delegitimize Donald Trump’s election as president. Second, to box Trump into a continued policy of antagonism toward Russia upon taking office. The first objective failed totally on Dec 19th when the electoral college carried out its constitutional duty and formally elected Trump as President of the United States. The second objective is in the process of failing right now.

Now it appears mainstream media outlets have begun to confirm that the thesis of my first article of Dec. 15th is about to come true. The New York Post, citing the Wall Street Journal, reported yesterday that “Trump Wants to Shake Up the CIA“: The Devil’s Chessboard… Donald Trump is working on a plan that would restructure the CIA — cutting staff at the agency’s headquarters in Langley and moving more agents to field posts across the globe, a report says. “The view from the Trump team is the intelligence world [is] becoming completely politicized,” a source close to the President-elect told the Wall Street Journal.

The insider is one of the few people familiar with Trump’s planning and said his advisers were also working to scale back the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well. “They all need to be slimmed down,” the source said. “The focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact.”

Also according to the Post, Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his national security advisor-designate Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn will spearhead the restructuring plan. But notably, a statement from one anonymous inteviewee appeared to contain a veiled threat against the President-elect: Intelligence officials told the Journal that they are ultimately disgusted with the President-elect’s social media behavior and disapproval of the CIA. “It’s appalling,” one official said. “No president has ever taken on the CIA and come out looking good.”

This is an incredible statement, and one which was obviously made to the WSJ very deliberately and conscientiously, a paper with which the CIA is known to have strong ties. The neocon rebels in the clandestine services are not happy that Donald Trump has publicly called them out for their warmongering Russophobic lies. Now they are sending him a message: “Don’t cross us. Or you won’t come out good.” Hidden History: Read between the lines of that statement and make of it what you will.

It is unlikely that Mr. Trump is intimidated. He knew what he was getting into when he ran for president. He knew what taking on the globalist establishment single handedly would entail. He was not motivated by money or power. He already had those in abundance.

What drove Donald J. Trump was a line made famous by the 35th US president, which today seems lost on those in Washington: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Trump set aside part of his victory speech on election night to specifically thank the US Secret Service. As the battle lines close leading up to and beyond inauguration day, the spirit of Trump and his millions of supporters hoping for a better country and a better world, might just be represented best by the following meme: "Nothing Will Stop Us"...

Kennedy has long fought against the vaccine industry, citing his belief that mercury / thimerosal, a controversial vaccine ingredient, is linked to autism. Additionally, Kennedy does not think the Pharmaceutical industry acts with any degree of philanthropy or good will of the people.

And then of course, there is Trump. Trump has a long history as well in regards to vaccine skepticism.

Kennedy has long fought against the vaccine industry, citing his belief that mercury / thimerosal, a controversial vaccine ingredient, is linked to autism. Additionally, Kennedy does not think the Pharmaceutical industry acts with any degree of philanthropy or good will of the people.

And then of course, there is Trump. Trump has a long history as well in regards to vaccine skepticism."

Rand Paul Reintroduces Bill To Audit The Fed – Claims To Have Trump’s Support

Whitney Webb Jan.10, 2017

"After over a century of secrecy, the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank may soon be forced to adopt a policy of greater transparency.

For over a hundred years, the US money supply has been controlled by the US Federal Reserve. Despite the use of the word “federal” in its title, the Federal Reserve – often colloquially referred to as the Fed – is a private entity, owned and controlled by a consortium of private banking interests. With the nation’s monetary policy beholden to a small group of powerful, private bankers, it’s no small wonder that the US dollar has become incredibly devalued over the past century – a move which benefits the bankers, but hurts everyday Americans. In addition, the Fed also charges taxpayers interest for each dollar they print as the Fed essentially “loans” dollars to the American public for use and forcing the US government and American public to become indebted to the banking cabal pulling the strings. Because the Fed has never been audited and has operated in near-total secrecy for much of its existence, the true impact of Federal Reserve’s actions remains unknown

However, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is seeking to change that. Having worked for years to force an audit of the Federal Reserve, Paul has now re-introduced the “Federal Reserve Transparency Act,” more commonly known as the “Audit the Fed” bill. With 8 co-sponsors and recently introduced companion legislation, the bill is also claiming to have the support of the President-Elect Donald Trump. Trump’s support is key as the bill, which has been passed by parts of congress on more than one occasion, would need his support to successfully become law due to strong opposition from politicians with close relationships to private banking interests. “The U.S. House has responded to the American people by passing Audit the Fed multiple times, and President-elect Trump has stated his support for an audit,” Paul said in a statement. “Let’s send him the bill this Congress.”

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BREAKING: Trump Just Cost CNN $4.2 Billion With Nothing But These Two Simple Words

Jan. 11, 2017 Stryker

"Donald Trump, after already having humiliated CNN and kicking them out of the White House Press Room come January 20th, went one step further this evening. In a statement released just minutes ago, Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson said that Trump’s incoming press secretary has researched how many events and how much money CNN stands to lose if the federal government shuts them off altogether:

“The Office of Inter-Agency Media Planning, which handles contracts with media outfits for state dinners, planned social events and inter-office birthday parties will be instructed to cancel all of CNN’s contracts, totalling $4.2 billion over the next four years.”

“You’re Fired.”

CNN has repeatedly gotten under the skin of the President-elect by reporting on the things he says rather than the things he meant to say, never once doing their due diligence to find out what was truly in his heart. Their last report, that Donald Trump enjoys watching women pee out of vengeful hate for a black guy he couldn’t quite match up to, went above and beyond insulting and actually almost accused Trump of wrong-doing — but not quite.

CNN should have just kept their traps shut and covered other people if they knew what was good for them. By the time Trump is done he’ll have the American press whittled down to a fraction of itself so dedicated to pushing Trump’s narrative that noted English political propagandist and famous teller of the truth Joe “Two Snaps and a Circle” Goebells would be proud.

The incoming Trump administration is considering moving White House press briefings out of the West Wing to accommodate more than the “Washington media elite,” President-elect Donald Trump’s press secretary said.

“This is about greater accessibility, more people in the process,” Sean Spicer said Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz.” Involving more people, including bloggers and others who aren’t from the mainstream media, “should be seen as a welcome change,” he said.

Spicer and other Trump officials said no decisions had been made.

Their comments followed a report Saturday by Esquire, citing unidentified officials from the transition team, that the new administration may move the press corps out of the main White House building altogether because of antagonism between Trump and the media.

Any change would be made for logistical reasons, in response to heavy demand from media organizations, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said Sunday.
Larger Venue

“The briefing room is open now to all reporters who request access,” White House Correspondents’ Association President Jeff Mason said in a statement Sunday. “We object strenuously to any move that would shield the president and his advisers from the scrutiny of an on-site White House press corps.”

Mason said he was meeting with Spicer “to try to get more clarity on exactly what” the proposal is.

“There’s such a tremendous amount of interest in this incoming administration that they’re giving some consideration to finding a larger venue on the 18 acres in the White House complex, to accommodate that extraordinary interest,” Pence said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

“The interest of the team is to make sure that we accommodate the broadest number of people who are interested and media from around the country and around the world,” Pence said.

On ABC’s “This Week,” incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said demand for press-conference credentials far exceeds the “49 people” who can fit into the current briefing room.
‘Uptight’ Press

“The one thing that we discussed was whether or not we want to move the initial press conferences into the Executive Office Building,” Priebus said, adding, “you can fit four times the amount of people.”

“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this, and I understand,” Priebus said. He didn’t address whether a change was being mulled only for briefings or also for the media’s daily working arrangements. The briefing room sits between the offices of White House communications staff and those of major news organizations, and is steps from the president’s Oval Office.

After “500 or 600” people attended Trump’s press conference in New York on Jan. 11, the president-elect’s first since the election, “we started thinking, man alive, if we have more people involved instead of less people involved, wouldn’t that be a good thing,” Priebus said.

Although located across the street, the Executive Office Building is still “the White House,” he said.

You are the first president to bring in a hope for at least some change in the medical system, which by far brings too much terror and death to Americans. People are taking notice of your selection of Health Secretary, which is good news for those who see that mainstream medicine is enshrined with pharmaceutical terrorism.

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Donald Trump’s pick as secretary of health and human services belongs to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), an Arizona-based medical organization, like a small AMA, that promotes reason in medicine. Yet some progressives see the AAPS as a far-right conspiracy theories type of medical organization meaning the accusers get no respect from me. Price, an orthopedic surgeon for 20 years before entering Congress, is a member of the group, as is Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., another well-known doctor-politician, is a member.

The AAPS opposes mandatory flu vaccine for health workers. “In a letter to Colorado public health officials, the AAPS opposes a rule requiring workers in health care facilities to have an annual influenza vaccination or lose their jobs. There is indignation that any medical organization would take the bold step of disagreeing with the health officials.

Conclusion

Anti-vaxxers are going to have a friend in the White House. Donald Trump has voiced concerns about vaccines for at least a decade, and, in August he attended a fundraiser with doctor Andrew Wakefield, whose research helped the anti-vaccination movement. There could be a civil war just on this issue for progressives and liberals are in love with vaccines so much so that they ignore all the children being hurt by them. Bravo to you President Trump for going against the Terror of Pediatric Medicine.

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Trump Will Boost Growth by 56% by 2018 Says IMF
With only 72 hours left to the Obama presidency, the IMF – International Monetary Fund – says it expects the U.S. economy to make a dramatic turnaround in 2017 thanks to the President Donald Trump economy.
Last year’s U.S. economic growth was a lackluster 1.6%, but the new Trump economy is already taking effect with promises of hundreds of thousands of new American jobs coming from a wide variety of industries as Trump has promised to slash the corporate income tax from 35 to 15% – from the highest in the world, to one of the lowest.
The IMF projects that U.S. economic growth will increase by 56% by 2018; going from 2016’s 1.6% up to 2.3% in 2017, and 2.5% by 2018.
The Trump effect is likely to spill over into other economies as well. Advanced economies are projected to grow 1.9% in 2017 and 2.0% in 2018 – trailing the U.S. growth projections, but still growing.
According to Maurice Obstfeld, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund:
“… the White House and Congress are in the hands of the same party for the first time in six years, and that change points to lower tax rates and possibly higher infrastructure and defense spending.”
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.

@JamesOKeefeIII @CNN @samantha_chang @KellyannePolls CNN should also be banned from the White House briefing room. It spreads Fake News.

— b.b (@becker_berta) January 19, 2017

The DeploraBall recently made headlines after undercover videos by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe showed a network of anti-Trump protesters planning to disrupt the black-tie event with acid attacks.

In one video, a man named Scott Green blithely discusses with fellow conspirators Colin Dunn and Luke Kuhn how they plan to release stink bombs in the HVAC system of the National Press Club, where the DeploraBall is being held.

The trio brags that the stink bombs would ruin partygoers’ clothing with their stench. The obnoxious smell would infect the entire building and eventually cause the DeploraBall to shut down.

project veritas stink bombs planned for inauguration disruptj20“This stuff is very efficient. It’s very, very smelly,” Scott Green said. “It lasts a long time and a little bit of it goes a long way.”

Colin Dunn agreed: “If you get it into the HVAC system, it will get into the whole building.”

Luke Kuhn chimed in: “If you had a pint of butyric acid, I don’t care how big the building is, it’s closing.”

The DeploraBall has since alerted the FBI, and the matter is now under investigation.

"Less than an hour after President Trump took the oath of office on Friday, the White House’s webpage on climate change disappeared, the latest sign that the new administration will divert resources – and attention – from the issue.

The removal of the page from the White House’s website came around the same time the site and other Executive Branch digital platforms were overhauled to reflect the new administration.

Trump has long denied, or at least questioned, the nearly unanimous agreement among scientists that human activity is causing rapid shifts in the Earth’s climate. At one point, the president called the phenomenon a “hoax” propagated by China to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive."

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I'm just about ready to quit trying to figure out what filter these people have on. Here's a BBC headline: Donald Trump inauguration speech was ‘angriest ever’

I've also seen it written that it was dystopian, defiant, dark (alliteration unintended). I just didn't hear that in the speech. I thought it was forward looking, honest about current circumstances and what has been the trend for decades, and optimistic about what he thinks he can achieve.

I guess I'm not surprised. I just really can't anymore with these people. It's like dealing with my mom who has dementia, which comes with delusions, paranoia, and false accusations. Actually, it is exactly that, and you can't tell them their perception is inaccurate. As they say, you can't argue with dementia - you will never win. From my experience, it's true.

But what causes mass dementia that only seems to affect certain people?

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Jim Stone's Outlook For The Next Couple Of Weeks....Short And Sweet, And Worth Your Time...

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Friday, 20-Jan-2017 17:11:52

My response: Obviously I was working on something if you are claiming I can now "retire" and no I will not, now is time to be like a pack of yapping dogs, MAKING SURE HE DELIVERS WHAT HE PROMISED. He's got ethics, that much I am sure of, but he's also got resistance and it is going to make it all one hell of a fight for him. So we need to apply pressure, while we also realize he can't clean up such a huge mess in one day.

MY CONCERNS: Now would be the time for them to crash the U.S. dollar if they were going to. We are going to now see just how much support for liberalism there really was in the upper ranks of society, obviously practically all Jews were liberal but there is also Henry Makow as an example of what can be good with them so we will have to wait and see. Ditto for Mike Rivero despite him having a liberal side.

The big test now is to see just how many of the good ones are on top, and how Trump handles the bad ones. He's got a tough job ahead of him, especially since there are plenty of non Jews that are also part of the problem. But it is the Jews who can give the yea or nay to crashing the dollar. Ought to be interesting, these next two weeks are going to be a real ride.

One thing I am sure many readers know is that a strong dollar hurts American products. If the dollar is so strong you can buy three day's work from China for $50, that is what anyone making the same products in America can afford to pay you. But if the dollar is devalued down to where the same 3 days of Chinese work now cost $500 in America, it would make sense to make that product in America. So killing the value of the dollar could backfire on the elite badly, it is not all simple.

Another example: America is now the world's greatest debtor nation, and all of that debt is owed in dollars. If the dollar crashes big time, all the creditors are going to get paid back air. That would help America enormously.

It really is going to be interesting to see what happens.

The marches against the President are going to flop
The biggest one is supposed to be a women's march in Los Angeles. However, even when posted about by someone in favor of it, it was admitted that there are only 70,000 who "said they'd go to the march on Facebook". My bet is that the very largest march anywhere will number under 10,000 with the rest being 500 people fizzles. Camera angles will do a lot, but a DJI phantom drone could bust reporting fraud easily, and there are plenty of those around. There really is not much hatred for Trump in the true public.

All 44th president prophecies are now proven false. We might have passed a huge test we were not expected to.

Shortly after the ceremony Mr Trump was seen signing his first official actions as the 45th president.

He sent his Cabinet nominations to the Senate as well as a signed a proclamation for a national day of patriotism, according to Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

He also signed his first executive order as president, ordering federal agencies to ease the regulatory burdens associated with Barack Obama's health care laws, known as Obamacare, as the US Congress determines how to repeal and replace them.

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The change of hands was reflected on the White House website, which was scrubbed of Mr Obama's policies and replaced with Mr Trump's new agenda.

The Trump administration has only listed six issues on the website: energy, foreign policy, jobs and growth, military, law enforcement and trade deals.

Critics pointed out the revamped site made no mention of civil rights, LGBT rights, healthcare or climate change.

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Here's A Trump Inaugural Story You Probably Will Not See In The "Media"....

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Friday, 20-Jan-2017 18:18:05

by Warner Todd Huston20 Jan 2017Washington D.C.347
A FedEx courier and former security guard from Illinois was surprised with an invitation to meet with Donald Trump after the President-elect saw a story on the struggling single father. But the special meeting wasn’t the only surprise. The young man was stunned when Trump presented him with a check for $10,000.

Shane Bouvet, a 23-year-old single dad, was featured in a Washington Post story highlighting his visit to D.C. to support Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The paper revealed that Bouvet was headed to D.C. in a borrowed suit and donated shoes to celebrate Trump’s oath of office.

“This is pretty much the biggest thing I’ve done in my life,” Bouvet told the paper. “I don’t get out much. I’m a small-town, blue-collar guy.”

But a mere visit to Washington to see this historic day was far from the only notable thing about Bouvet’s visit, because Trump himself saw the paper’s feature on Bouvet and invited the young man to a one-on-one meeting.

On Thursday, only a day before he took the oath of office to become the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump met Mr. Bouvet, shook his hand, and offered some help.

“This is the greatest guy,” Trump said as he shook Bouvet’s hand in a tented area behind the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, the Post reported.

Bouvet called his father and had him say hello to the president in waiting. The President-elect laughed that Bouvet’s father, who is also named Don, has “a great name.”

After Bouvet’s phone call back home, Trump signed autographs for the young man’s son and then came the big surprise.

As Mr. Bouvet prepared to end his historic meeting with the President-elect, Donald Trump handed him a personal check for $10,000.

As he walked away stunned and crying, Bouvet muttered aloud, “Did that just happen?”